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by modeless 10mo ago
The risk isn't that casual users all spontaneously decide to stop using Steam on their own. The risk is that businesses exploit the subsidy in various ways. For example, businesses could buy the Steam Machine in bulk as a workstation.
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by modeless 10mo ago
Valve's hardware products will be successful but remain niche. And that's ok. They are unwilling to pursue business models that require locking down hardware in order to subsidize it with software purchases, and I love that about
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by modeless 10mo ago
Geoff Hinton's 2012 Coursera course "Neural Networks for Machine Learning" was incredible. Anyone who took that course got in on the ground floor of deep learning just when it was about to take off. It certainly changed the c
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by modeless 10mo ago
Sure, but that only goes so far, especially when users aren't writing their shaders with knowledge that this transform is going to be applied or any tools to verify that it's able to eliminate anything.
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by modeless 10mo ago
I don't understand this part: > Meshlet has no clear 1:1 lane to vertex mapping, there’s no straightforward way to run a partial mesh shader wave for selected triangles. This is the main reason mobile GPU vendors haven’t been keen t
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by modeless 10mo ago
Oh, huh, and since there's no previous release version it just fails to install completely? That's unfortunate.
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by modeless 10mo ago
That's the full error. It shows up in a dialog box when I press the install button. I'm on macOS, connected with the Anysphere Remote SSH extension to a Linux machine. If I choose "install previous version" I am able to
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by modeless 10mo ago
The title of this story should be "Announcing the Beta release of ty". A lot of people have been waiting for the beta specifically. I've been using Pyrefly and loving it compared to Pyright, but they recently shipped some upd
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by modeless 10mo ago
It would likely reduce or eliminate the "compiling shaders" step many games now have on first run after an update, and the stutters many games have as new objects or effects come on screen for the first time.
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by modeless 10mo ago
These satellites will certainly be above the themosphere. The temperature of the sparse molecules in space is not relevant for cooling because there are too few of them. We're talking about radiative cooling here.
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by modeless 10mo ago
The Sun is also not 10 C. Luckily you have solar arrays which shade your radiators from it, so you can ignore the direct light from it when calculating radiator efficiency. The actual concern in LEO is radiation from the Earth itself.
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by modeless 10mo ago
The temperature that you raise to the fourth power is not Celsius, it's Kelvin. Otherwise things at -200 C would radiate more heat than things at 100 C. Also the temperature of space is ~3 K (cosmic microwave background), not 10 C.
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by modeless 10mo ago
OTOH they have achieved many things that experienced people said were impossible or would never make financial sense.
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by modeless 10mo ago
OTOH SpaceX has a pretty good history of undercutting the industry on cost. If Starship full reusability works I would be very surprised if it only lowered launch costs by a factor of three. Of course it's not guaranteed to work, but c
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by modeless 10mo ago
I love the sliders, but note that the numbers on this site literally came from ChatGPT, so there is plenty of room for disagreement. Seems like according to this analysis it all hinges on launch cost and satellite cost. This site's def
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by modeless 10mo ago
But not without the phone
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by modeless 10mo ago
Do you get SMS that continues to work when the phone is powered off?
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by modeless 10mo ago
If you're in the US you can get a real cell phone number with VoIP and SMS that works without a phone for $20/mo with Google Fi. You'd need a phone to set it up but after that you could just turn it off and still use VoIP and
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by modeless 10mo ago
I like this metric for service security. Which service is the most expensive to buy verification on? So far the best one I've found is Telegram at 166/$100, and the worst is Discord at 5044/$100. https://cotsi.org&
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by modeless 10mo ago
I want AI to use the same interfaces humans use. If AIs use APIs designed specifically for them, then eventually in the future the human interface will become an afterthought. I don't want to live in a world where I have to use AI beca
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by modeless 10mo ago
No mention there of the fact that this is a bitmap font. I think that's kind of important.
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by modeless 10mo ago
I think it makes sense to do an ASIC later, but not now. Chip development is expensive and risky. They ought to at least start selling a product with positive gross margin first.
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by modeless 10mo ago
> Satellites in higher orbits do a lot that can't be done in LEO This isn't really true anymore. Yes there's a lot of legacy technology still in use and even still being launched, but there's nothing in MEO or GEO tha
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by modeless 10mo ago
HN's moderation and ranking is better. But there's definitely an echo chamber effect here too.
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by modeless 10mo ago
Years ago I worked on the Google Maps team. IMO Google has underinvested in Maps UI for a long time due to a lack of competition and a lack of appreciation for the value of the product because the amount of direct revenue attributable to it
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by modeless 10mo ago
I'm not sure I believe that operational satellites would be unaffected by sustained bombardment with tungsten particles at orbital velocity (x2 for head on collisions), even if they are 10 microns.
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by modeless 10mo ago
Hmm, seems like it would work for 800 km, but maybe not for 1000+ km? Just based on what he says there, which is that each 100 km increase is a factor of 10 in deorbit time, and it's 1 year at 800 km.
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by modeless 10mo ago
Yeah it would suck to lose Starlink for a few years. I wouldn't mourn spy telescopes. But most other satellites like weather satellites or ballistic missile detectors or GPS are in higher orbits and wouldn't be affected at all. My
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by modeless 10mo ago
If the Starlink satellites all collided, the worst case is that we would have to ditch the space station (which is already planned in a few years) and wait a few years to launch more into LEO. The debris deorbits automatically due to atmosp
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by modeless 10mo ago
I find YouTube search to be serviceable. At least it has decent filtering and sorting options. Gmail search is just OK, but I haven't found anything much better. Chrome history search, though, is completely worthless. Especially since

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